re: Man of Steel - upon further review...(Posted by Sentrius on 8/22/13 at 3:57 pm to udtiger)

This is one movie where the critics knew that Man of Steel was going to be quite different from the Donner universe but still couldn't quite handle the departure from the Donner films into something so completely different that MoS was. The critics were expecting something at least similar to the Donner films and Snyder/Nolan never intended to give them that. Hence the low rating.

Part of the reason why Man of Steel was like this is they listened to the fanboys who drive the comic book genre who supremely hated Superman Returns and acted accordingly by realizing that a different, new and fresh take on Supes was in order. Without fanboys, the comic book genre wouldn't exist or just be barely on life support.

There were a ton of things that just pissed me off about it. I went off pretty hard on it in the MoS Discussion thread: About halfway down. I do plan to rewatch it when it comes out and hopefully I'll ease up on it a little bit, but I remember just being mad/disappointed when I left the theater. And I'm normally extraordinarily easy to please when it comes to movies, and I was looking forward to MoS a good bit.

quote:The only difference was he killed Zod but that really wasn't that shocking, you could see it coming.

Actually this is the biggest change and the backbone of the departure from the donner universe. There's a lot of controversy around this and It's the biggest factor why the critics gave this a low rating. Superman doesn't kill, he finds every possible way he can to save the lives of everybody, good or evil. It finalized the notion that this is a different Superman.

re: Man of Steel - upon further review...(Posted by Dr RC on 8/22/13 at 4:20 pm to Sentrius)

quote:This is one movie where the critics knew that Man of Steel was going to be quite different from the Donner universe but still couldn't quite handle the departure from the Donner films into something so completely different that MoS was. The critics were expecting something at least similar to the Donner films and Snyder/Nolan never intended to give them that. Hence the low rating.